EP1273436A1 - Tubes et tuyauterie brillante - Google Patents
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- This invention is related to the production of high gloss sheets, pipes, tubes or connector joints and in particular to the production of high gloss tubes formed of polyethylene.
- High gloss high density polyethylene has been used: it is characterised by a very narrow molecular weight distribution that is typically inferior to 8.
- the molecular weight distribution can be completely defined by means of a curve obtained by gel permeation chromatography.
- the molecular weight distribution (MWD) is more simply defined by a parameter, known as the dispersion index D, which is the ratio between the average molecular weight by weight (Mw) and the average molecular weight by number (Mn).
- the dispersion index constitutes a measure of the width of the molecular weight distribution. It is known that a resin of narrow molecular weight distribution will produce plastic articles of very high gloss but simultaneously, that such resin will be very difficult to process and will be characterised by very poor mechanical properties. It has also been observed that said resins have poor mechanical properties, particularly, a very low environmental stress crack resistance (Modern Plastic International, August 1993, p. 45).
- Low density polyethylene (LDPE) and polyethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers are used to prepare articles with very smooth surface finish and thus high gloss but they suffer from a lack of rigidity, thereby requiring thick walls if used for pressurised fluids.
- the polyethylene materials that offer high rigidity are characterised by a fairly rough surface resulting from the surface crystallisation of the polymer. The articles produced with these polymers thus have a mat finish.
- HDPE high density polyethylene
- high gloss plastic articles comprise an internal layer including a polyolefin and an external layer including a styrenic component containing from 40 to 85 wt% of styrene, based on the weight of the external layer, as disclosed for example in European Patent Application n° 00201155.9.
- An aim of the present invention is to produce plastic sheets or pipes or tubes or connector joints that offer simultaneously the desired glossy appearance and a high rigidity.
- the present invention provides single layer or multi-layer plastic sheets or pipes or tubes or connector joints, for which the external layer consists essentially of a metallocene-produced polyethylene having a density of from 0.910 g/cm 3 , preferably from 0.925 g/cm 3 , up to 0.966 g/cm 3 , or up to homopolymer densities, and a melt index MI2 of from 0.001 to 20 g/10min, preferably 0.2 to 5 g/10 min, and most preferably from 0.5 to 2.5 g/10 min, for extrusion blow moulding, and of from 0.1 to 500 g/10 min, preferably from 0.7 to 70 g/10 min for injection blow moulding.
- the external layer consists essentially of a metallocene-produced polyethylene having a density of from 0.910 g/cm 3 , preferably from 0.925 g/cm 3 , up to 0.966 g/cm 3 , or up to homopolymer densities, and a melt index
- the density of the polyethylene is measured at 23 °C using the procedures of ASTM D 1505.
- the melt index MI2 is measured using the procedures of ASTM D 1238 at 190°C using a load of 2.16 kg.
- the high load melt index HLMI is measured using the procedures of ASTM D 1238 at 190 °C using a load of 21.6 kg.
- the external layer is prepared with a metallocene-produced polyethylene resin
- the inner layer(s) is(are) prepared with any one of the known catalysts, such as a chromium or a Ziegler-Natta or a metallocene catalyst, said metallocene catalyst being either the same as or different from the metallocene catalyst used to prepare the external layer.
- EP-A-0,291,824, EP-A-0,591,968 and US-A-5,310,834 each disclose mixed catalyst compositions, incorporating chromium-based catalysts, for the polymerisation of polyethylene.
- the HDPE can be produced using a conventional Ziegler-Natta catalyst or a supported Ziegler-Natta catalyst comprising metallocene sites such as described in EP-A-0,585,512.
- the HDPE can further be polymerised with a metallocene catalyst capable of producing a mono- or bi- or multimodal distribution, either in a two step process such as described for example in EP-A-0,881,237, or as a dual or multiple site catalyst in a single reactor such as described for example in EP-A-0,619,325.
- a metallocene catalyst capable of producing a mono- or bi- or multimodal distribution, either in a two step process such as described for example in EP-A-0,881,237, or as a dual or multiple site catalyst in a single reactor such as described for example in EP-A-0,619,325.
- Any metallocene catalyst known in the art can be used in the present invention. It is represented by the general formula: I.
- Cp m MR n X q
- M is a group 4b, 5b or 6b transition metal
- R is a hydrocarbyl group or hydrocarboxy having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms
- X is a halogen
- R" s (C 5 R' k ) 2 MQ' wherein (C 5 R' k ) is a cyclopentadienyl or substituted cyclopentadienyl, each R' is the same or different and is hydrogen or a hydrocarbyl radical such as alkyl, alkenyl, aryl, alkylaryl, or arylalkyl radical containing from 1 to 20 carbon atoms or two carbon atoms are joined together to form a C 4 -C 6 ring, R" is a C 1 -C 4 alkylene radical, a dialkyl germanium or silicon or siloxane, or a alkyl phosphine or amine radical bridging two (C 5 R' k ) rings, Q is a hydrocarbyl radical such as aryl, alkyl, alkenyl, alkylaryl, or aryl alkyl radical having from 1-20 carbon atoms, hydrocarboxy radical having 1-20 carbon atoms or hal
- metallocenes used in the present invention one can cite among others ethylene bis-(tetrahydroindenyl) zirconium dichloride, ethylene bis-(indenyl) zirconium dichloride or bis-(n-butylcyclopentadienyl) zirconium dichloride, mono-, bi- or tri-substituted, as disclosed for example in EP-A-870,048.
- the metallocene may be supported according to any method known in the art.
- the support used in the present invention can be any organic or inorganic solids, particularly porous supports such as talc, inorganic oxides, and resinous support material such as polyolefin.
- the support material is an inorganic oxide in its finely divided form.
- An active site must be created by adding a cocatalyst having an ionising action.
- alumoxane is used as cocatalyst during the polymerization procedure, and any alumoxane known in the art is suitable.
- the preferred alumoxanes comprise oligomeric linear and/or cyclic alkyl alumoxanes represented by the formula : for oligomeric, linear alumoxanes and for oligomeric, cyclic alumoxanes, wherein n is 1-40, preferably 10-20, m is 3-40, preferably 3-20 and R is a C 1 -C 8 alkyl group and preferably methyl. Methylalumoxane is preferably used.
- one or more aluminiumalkyl represented by the formula AIR x are used wherein each R is the same or different and is selected from halides or from alkoxy or alkyl groups having from 1 to 12 carbon atoms and x is from 1 to 3.
- Especially suitable aluminiumalkyl are trialkylaluminium, the most preferred being triisobutylaluminium (TIBAL).
- the metallocene catalyst utilised to produce a polyethylene can be used in gas, solution or slurry polymerisation.
- the polymerization process is conducted under slurry phase polymerization conditions.
- the polymerisation temperature ranges from 20 to 125°C, preferably from 60 to 105°C and the pressure ranges from 0.1 to 10 Mpa, preferably from 2 to 6.5 Mpa, for a time ranging from 10 minutes to 4 hours, preferably from 0.3 and 2.5 hours, most preferably from 0.5 to 1 hour.
- the polymerization reaction be run in a diluent at a temperature at which the polymer remains as a suspended solid in the diluent.
- a continuous loop reactor is preferably used for conducting the polymerisation. Multiple loop reactors can also be used for polymerisation.
- the average molecular weight is controlled by adding hydrogen during polymerisation.
- the relative amounts of hydrogen and olefin introduced into the polymerisation reactor are from 0.001 to 15 mole percent hydrogen and from 99.999 to 85 mole percent olefin based on total hydrogen and olefin present, preferably from 0.2 to 3 mole percent hydrogen and from 99.8 to 97 mole percent olefin.
- the density of the polyethylene is regulated by the amount of comonomer injected into the reactor; examples of comonomer which can be used include C3-C22 n-olefins or non conjugated diolefins among which the preferred are: 1-olefins, butene, hexene, octene, 4-methyl-pentene, and the like, the most preferred being hexene.
- the densities of the polyethylenes required for preparing the high gloss sheets, tubes or pipes of the present invention range from 0.910 g/cm 3 , preferably from 0.925 g/cm 3 up to 0.966 g/cm 3 , or up to homopolymer densities.
- the melt index of polyethylene is regulated by the amount of hydrogen injected into the reactor.
- the melt indexes useful in the present invention range from 0.01 g/10 min to 20 g/10 min, preferably from 0.2 to 5 g/10 min and most preferably from 0.5 to 2.5 g/10 min.
- the polyethylene resin used in the present invention can be prepared with either a single site metallocene catalyst or with a multiple site metallocene catalyst and it has therefore either a monomodal or a bimodal molecular weight distribution.
- the molecular weight distribution is of from 2 to 20, preferably, of from 2 to 7 and more preferably of from 2 to 5.
- polyethylene resins produced in accordance with the above-described processes have physical properties making them particularly suitable for use as blow moulding grade polyethylenes.
- the metallocene polyethylene resins are used in the present invention for manufacturing high gloss plastic sheets or pipes or tubes.
- the high gloss tubes or pipes of the present invention preferably have a diameter of from 0.5 to 250 mm. Said tubes or pipes are used for various applications:
- the sheets, tubes and pipes can be manufactured by any method known in the art such as:
- fluoroelastomer in the resin allowing for very low transformation temperatures of from 140 to 180 °C, preferably, around 160 °C. Such temperatures are 30 to 40 °C lower than the transformation temperature normally used.
- the external layer is a metallocene-produced polyethylene and the internal layer is a polyethylene produced by any conventional method.
- the external layer represents from 5 to 14 %, preferably about 10 %, of the total wall thickness.
- the plastic tubes of the present invention are characterised by a very high gloss, as measured using the method of ASTM D 2457-90 standard test and a low haze as measured by the method of ASTM D 1003-92 standard test.
- the environmental stress crack resistance is measured following the method of standard test ASTM D 1693 method B with a solution of 10 % Igepal CO630.
- the production rate is very high even though the melt index is low.
- the polyethylene resin was obtained by continuous polymerisation in a loop slurry reactor with a supported and ionised metallocene catalyst prepared in two steps by first reacting SiO 2 with MAO to produce SiO 2 .MAO and then reacting 94 wt% of the SiO 2 .MAO produced in the first step with 6 wt% of ethylene bis-(tetrahydroindenyl) zirconium dichloride.
- the dry catalyst was slurried in isobutane and pre-contacted with triisobutylaluminium (TIBAI, 10 wt% in hexane) before injection in the reactor.
- TIBAI triisobutylaluminium
- C2 is ethylene
- C6 is 1-hexene
- iC4 is isobutane
- TIBAI is triisobutylaluminium
- Resin R2 is a classical medium density polyethylene (MDPE) resin produced with a chromium catalyst commercialised under the name ®Finathesse HF513. It was prepared with a titanated supported chromium catalyst.
- MDPE medium density polyethylene
- the pipes prepared with the metallocene-produced polyethylene have a good thickness distribution. They can be produced with a low extrusion pressure, the extrusion temperature is lower than that of the pipes prepared with conventional MDPE and the extrusion output is very high.
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EP01202577A EP1273436A1 (fr) | 2001-07-05 | 2001-07-05 | Tubes et tuyauterie brillante |
JP2003510208A JP2004533375A (ja) | 2001-07-04 | 2002-07-02 | 光沢性のチューブおよびパイプ. |
AU2002354708A AU2002354708A1 (en) | 2001-07-04 | 2002-07-02 | Glossy tubes and pipes |
PCT/EP2002/007491 WO2003004207A2 (fr) | 2001-07-04 | 2002-07-02 | Tubes et tuyaux brillants |
DE60214189T DE60214189T2 (de) | 2001-07-04 | 2002-07-02 | Glänzende rohre und schläuche |
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